Desk and seat structure



June 5, 1934- H E N 1,961,459

DESK AND SEAT STRUCTURE Original Filed March 1932 24.; E59 a1 H JheJcZon Patented June 5, 1934 UNITED STATES DESK AND SEAT STRUCTURE Edgar H. Sheldon, Muskegon Township, Muskegon County, Mich.

Application March 2, 1932, Serial No. 596,166 Renewed March 16, 1934 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to desk and seat structures; and its object is, generally,'to provide an improved structure of that character; and more particularly, to provide in such a structure improved means for mounting the seat on the right-hand side or the left-hand side or end of the desk portion of the structure. 7

These and any other and more specific objects hereinafter appearing are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in the structure particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of a corner portion of a desk or table structure including a seat which is shown partially in vertical section;

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional View thereof taken on line 2--2 of Figure L; and

Figure 3 is a top plan view, somewhat diagrammatic, of the structure illustrating the mounting of the seat on opposite corners of the desk portion.

In the drawing is shown a structure including a corner portion or vertical leg 1 of a table or desk 35 and a seat designated generally 2 swingably mounted on said leg. The means for thus mounting the seat comprises a horizontally swingable arm 3 having at its inner end the ears 4 through whose vertical bearings 5 and through aligned bearings 6 in the ears '7 of a bracket member 8 the pintle 9 extends.

At the outer or free end of said arm is a vertical bearing 10 in which turns the spindle portion 11 of a spider 12 whose radially extending arms 13 are secured on the under side of the horizontal portion 14 of the seat. The bracket member 8 has angularly disposed flanges 15, 16 secured as by screws 17 to a corner portion of the desk, as to the angularly disposed sides 18, 19 respectively of said leg. The spider 12 has a pair of downwardly extending lugs 20, 21 angularly disposed about the axis of the spindle 11, i. e. desirably at opposite sides thereof.

Each of these lugs has a pair of threaded openings 22, 23 respectively extending in horizontal directions transverse, i. e. substantially right angles, to each other. Threaded stops 24, 25 are inserted into either end of these threaded openings respectively and are turnable therein to limit the turning movement of the seat about the axis of its spindle, the ends 26 of the stops in their adjusted turned positions being adapted to strike the vertical sides 27, 28 of an upwardly extending lug or abutment 29 of the arm 3.

The inner end of the arm 3 has threaded openings 30, 31 on the opposite sides of the pintle 9, into which openings are turned to desired position the threaded stops 32, 33, whose heads are adapted to strike the angularly disposed sides 15, 34 of the bracket member 8 to limit the swinging movement of said arm on the pintle. The arm 3 is shown tubular in form to provide greater strength.

It will be seen that the threaded stops 24, 25 may be inserted into the openings 22 when the seat is mounted on the right-hand leg 1 as shown in Figures 1 and 2, and may be inserted into the openings 23 when the seat is mounted on the left-hand leg 1 as indicated in solid lines in Figure 3, and that in either case the seat is swingable to positions in front .of the desk or table and to positions at the ends thereof respectively; thus it will be seen that when the threaded stops are inserted into the corresponding openings 22 (the arm and seat being mounted on the right-hand leg 1), the seat member is turnable to limited positions wherein its back rest 39 is approximately parallel with the front .or the right-hand end of the desk; and when the threaded stops are inserted into the other corresponding openings 23 (the arm being mounted on the left-hand leg 1) the seat member is turnable to limited positions wherein its back rest is approximately parallel with the front or the left-hand end of the desk, all as indicated in Figure 3 and it will also be seen that these threaded stops may be inserted into either end of said openings as may seem desirable. A leg 36 for the free end of the swingable arm, and jam nuts 37, 38 on the threaded steps 24, 25 and 32, 33 are shown.

I claim:

In a desk: an arm member swingable on the desk horizontally, a seat member turnable about a vertical axis on the free end of the arm member, one of said members having pairs of threaded openings the openings composing each of said pairs extending in horizontal directions transverse to each other and said pairs being disposed angularly about said axis, the other one of said members having an abutment positioned between said pairs; a pair of threaded stops turnable into corresponding openings of each pair of openings and adapted to strike the opposite sides respectively of the abutment to limit the turning movement of the seat member in both directions in one swung position of, the arm member, said stops being turnable into the other corresponding openings of each pair of openings and adapted to strike said opposite sides respectively to limit the turning movement of the seat member in both directions in another swung position of the arm member.

EDGAR H. SHELDON. 

